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VMware 6.0.3 in Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 kernel 2.6.24

Hi, its me again with another howto VMware :), this time the task is harder :(. Based on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 Beta

Steps:

1. Get VMware from www.vmware.com(I used VMware Workstation because I have the licence for that version) since we're using Ubuntu you should get the tar.gz file.

Source: Igor Weblog

Ubuntu: South African Penguin gets a VMware hug

In the coming weeks, ISVs and OEMs will gain access to Ubuntu JeOS – pronounced Juice. The acronym stands for Just Enough Operating System, since the Ubuntu folks have ripped out a variety of general purpose software packages that don't really play into the virtualization game. As a result, you end up with a server OS that's 215MB in size – plus 65MB from VMware, as compared to a standard version of Ubuntu at 320 to 686ish MB in size, depending on what packages you select.
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To get the lower size, Canonical pulled out things such as MySQL, Cups, postfix, slapd, evms and mutt.

Source: Virtualization For Everyone

VMware

Last week, I decided to install VMware to run Linux (Ubuntu) and Vista on the computer at work. The process was quite simple, installed VMWARE Workstation, configure the Virtual Machines that I want to create, load it up and start installing. After everything installed, I put the VM images on to my USB harddisk and [...]

Source: vinlai - Impermanence